Proverbs 7:17
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much, that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty.
Psalms 45:9Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.
Isaiah 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →